Legal claims defining the scope of protection, as filed with the USPTO.
1. A device, comprising: an active matrix light-emitting diode (LED) display on a substrate comprising LED pixels located on a surface of the substrate, wherein the LED pixels emit light resulting in emitted light; a color conversion layer located on a surface of the LED pixels, wherein the color conversion layer converts the emitted light into colors; a lens that, in response to receiving light generated by the LED display, projects the emitted light corresponding to a first color, a second color, and a third color of the colors onto a first location, a second location, or a third location of a projection surface respectively, thereby directing, to the first location, the second location, or the third location, a magnified, an enlarged or a focused version of the emitted light on the projection surface; and a controller, coupled to the LED display on the substrate, that controls respective states of the LED pixels.
2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the color conversion layer comprises a plurality of color conversion layers comprising a color conversion material that is excited in response to the controller applying a current to an LED pixel of the LED pixels and the LED pixel emitting the light.
3. The device of claim 2 , wherein the plurality of color conversion layers further comprises at least one of a phosphor powder, a fluorescent material, a quantum dot, or a conversion film.
4. The device of claim 2 , wherein the LED pixels are configured to emit light at a determined wavelength, and wherein the color conversion layer of the plurality of color conversion layers is excited by the emitted light at the determined wavelength.
5. The device of claim 2 , wherein the plurality of color conversion layers is located on a first side of at least one of the LED pixels.
6. The device of claim 2 , wherein the plurality of color conversion layers comprises a shape corresponding to a shape of the LED pixel of the LED pixels.
7. The device of claim 2 , wherein the surface of the LED display on the substrate further comprises cavities configured to receive the color conversion material.
8. The device of claim 2 , wherein the LED pixels emit light at an ultraviolet wavelength and the plurality of color conversion layers is excited by the light at the ultraviolet wavelength.
9. The device of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of color conversion layers comprises a red color conversion layer attached to a first LED pixel, a green color conversion layer attached to a second LED pixel, and a blue conversion material attached to a third LED pixel of the LED pixels.
10. The device of claim 2 , wherein the LED display on the substrate generates the light at a defined wavelength to produce first light at the first color and wherein the color conversion material alters second light from at least one LED pixel of the LED pixels resulting in an altered light such that the altered light is a disparate color from the first color.
11. The device of claim 10 , wherein the first color is blue and the color conversion material alters the second light to produce the altered light of at least a red color or a green color.
12. The device of claim 1 , further comprising a passive matrix programmed display that comprises a passive matrix driving substrate.
13. The device of claim 12 , wherein a polarity of the LED pixels is aligned in an array, negative electrodes of the LED pixels that are in a row of the array are coupled together, positive electrodes of the LED pixels in a column are coupled together, and, in response to current applied between a determined row and a determined column, a set of the LED pixels connecting between the determined row and the determined column emits light.
14. The device of claim 1 , further comprising an active matrix programmed display that comprises an active matrix driving substrate.
15. The device of claim 14 , wherein a polarity of the LED pixels is aligned in an array, respective negative electrodes of the LED pixels are coupled together, and respective positive electrodes of the LED pixels are coupled to an output of the active matrix driving substrate.
16. The device of claim 14 , further comprising a plurality of driving circuits associated with respective ones of the LED pixels.
17. The device of claim 16 , wherein the plurality of driving circuits comprises a plurality of transistors and capacitors with structures comprising at least one of an analog driver, a current mirror, a current ratio component, or a pulse-width modulation component.
18. The device of claim 17 , wherein the plurality of transistors comprises at least one of: a p-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (PMOS) transistor, an n-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (NMOS) transistor, an n-type amorphous silicon Thin Film Transistor (n-type a-Si TFT), a p-type amorphous silicon Thin Film Transistor (p-type a-Si TFT), an n-type poly crystalline silicon Thin Film Transistor (n-type p-Si TFT), a p-type poly crystalline silicon Thin Film Transistor (p-type p-Si TFT), an n-type Silicon On Insulator (SOI) transistor, or a p-type SOI transistor.
19. The device of claim 14 , further comprising a layer of the substrate on which components of the active matrix display are mounted, wherein the layer of the substrate comprises at least one material selected from a group comprising single crystal silicon, silicon on insulator (SOI), Quartz, and glass.
20. The device of claim 1 , wherein the substrate comprises at least one material selected from a group comprising GaAs, SiC, Semi-insulating GaAs, Sapphire, and Quartz.
21. The device of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to alter, based on a selected image, the respective states of the LED pixels to generate an image.
22. The device of claim 21 , further comprising a projection component that, in response to receiving the image, projects the image on the projection surface.
23. The device of claim 22 , wherein the projection surface comprises a display surface that receives the image on a first surface and displays the image on a second surface, and wherein the second surface is opposite the first surface.
24. A method, comprising: altering, by a device, states of a group of light-emitting diode (LED) pixels disposed on a substrate between a first state defined as an on state and a second state defined as an off state, wherein the on state corresponds to emitting light by the group of LED pixels and the off state corresponds to an absence of emitting light by the group of LED pixels; converting, by the device, respective lights emitted by the group of LED pixels in the on state to respective colors; and initiating, by the device, generation of an image corresponding to a first color, a second color, or a third color of the respective colors during the on state, wherein the image is magnified, enlarged, or focused onto a first location, a second location, or a third location on a projection surface based on whether the image corresponding to the first color, the second color, or the third color is initiated.
25. The method of claim 24 , further comprising, based on the altering of the states, exciting, by the device, a color conversion material located on at least one of the LED pixels of the group of LED pixels.
26. The method of claim 25 , wherein the color conversion material is attached to the at least one LED pixel by at least one process selected from a group of processes comprising spin coating, dispensing, deposition, plating, evaporating and pasting.
27. The method of claim 25 , further comprising: based on the initiating the generation of the image and the color conversion material, determining, by the device, a wavelength of light for emission by a selected LED pixel of the group of LED pixels.
28. The method of claim 24 , wherein the altering of the states of the group of LED pixels further comprises: altering a target level of current supplied to the group of LED pixels.
29. A device, comprising: a plurality of substrates comprising a plurality of arrays of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) respectively, wherein a first array of the plurality of arrays of LEDs emits first light representing a first color, a second array of the plurality of arrays of LEDs emits second light representing a second color, and a third array of the plurality of arrays of LEDs emits third light representing a third color, and wherein the first color, the second color, and the third color are different colors; a lens that, in response to receiving respective lights generated by the plurality of arrays of LEDs, projects the first light, the second light, and the third light onto a first location, a second location, and a third location of a projection surface respectively in accordance with a time schedule, resulting in a magnified, an enlarged or a focused version of the first light, the second light, and the third light being directed onto the projection surface; and a processor, coupled to a first plurality of LEDs and a second plurality of LEDs, that is configured to selectively apply a charge to a plurality of LEDs comprising the first plurality of LEDs and the second plurality of LEDs.
30. The device of claim 29 , further comprising: a focusing component that receives the respective lights from the plurality of arrays of LEDs and focuses the respective lights into an image.
31. The device of claim 30 , further comprising: a current source that supplies a target level of current to the plurality of arrays of LEDs based on a target light-emitting brightness value.
32. The device of claim 29 , further comprising a set of lenses, associated with respective substrates of the plurality of substrates, that receive the respective lights generated by the plurality of arrays of LEDs of the respective substrates.
33. The device of claim 29 , further comprising: the projection surface that, in response to receiving the respective lights from the plurality of arrays of LEDs of the plurality of substrates, displays the light.
34. The device of claim 29 , wherein each array of the plurality of arrays of LEDs comprises monochromatic LEDs having a disparate associated color in comparison to each other color of each other array.
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August 23, 2016
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